Health Care
Commentary
What Would Yogi Say?
While the bill narrowly passed the House, it is not clear that Senator Harry Reid (D., Nev.) will be able to get the 60 votes needed to pass his bill by the end of the year. In fact, Senator Reid has said recently that it looks like his bill will ...
Commentary
Security and Stability
If Speaker of the House Pelosi is able to muster the 218 votes needed for passage by the House and approval later this year or early next year, there is no question that the final outcome will be higher premiums for all Americans and more uninsured. The president focused in ...
Commentary
Stupak Amendment
The goal here—the only goal—is to stop health-care socialism. Period. Giving the pro-life Democrats a reason to vote for it—passage of the Stupak amendment—seems to me to be madness. And suppose that it passes and the Senate passes its own version of health care “reform,” after which Waxman and Pelosi ...
Commentary
The AMA and AARP Don’t Speak for Doctors and Seniors
Hopefully the Congressional Budget Office will quit misleading people by saying that the House and Senate bills would each siphon hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare and spend it elsewhere. And hopefully the CBO will quit saying that if the bills don’t do this, they will add hundreds ...
Health Care
The AMA Is More a Monopoly in Crisis Than a Professional Association
As for the AMA, even the Wall Street Journal labels the AMA the “doctors lobby” (sic), while noting that 20 other physicians’ organizations are highly critical of the proposed legislation. Actually, state, county, and specialized medical societies are the real voices of the profession. The AMA is a business that ...
Business & Economics
Health Reform Would Bury Small Business
Investor’s Business Daily, November 6, 2009 President Obama recently delivered a special address aimed at quelling small-business owners’ concerns about Democratic plans for health care reform. The legislation, he assured, would “benefit millions of small businesses” and was “being written with the interests of Americans like you and your employees ...
Business & Economics
Government interference in health care not needed
While the U.S. health care system needs reform, it can be done without government involvement, a 5th district U.S. Congressional candidate and doctor told an audience Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Dr. Johnny Roy, chief of urology at the Edmond Medical Center, spoke during a public health care forum ...
Commentary
SPN 2009 Conference: Final Day
Publius Forum, November 4, 2009 The Wednesday session began with a breakfast address by James K. Glassman the former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State during the George W. Bush administration. He spoke on Internet freedom (as opposed to net neutrality) and expressed his ...
California
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
Last month, Christina Romer, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, made a presentation at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In response to a question about whether a so-called “public option” for health insurance would increase competition and reduce costs, ...
Commentary
How best to lower health care costs?
San Diego Union-Tribune, November 4, 2009 In a recent column, David Broder proclaimed that “no one should be denied coverage options by virtue of where they live.” “Health care and states’ rights,” (Oct. 30). That’s exactly why Congress should allow consumers to purchase health insurance across state lines. Insurance regulations ...
What Would Yogi Say?
While the bill narrowly passed the House, it is not clear that Senator Harry Reid (D., Nev.) will be able to get the 60 votes needed to pass his bill by the end of the year. In fact, Senator Reid has said recently that it looks like his bill will ...
Security and Stability
If Speaker of the House Pelosi is able to muster the 218 votes needed for passage by the House and approval later this year or early next year, there is no question that the final outcome will be higher premiums for all Americans and more uninsured. The president focused in ...
Stupak Amendment
The goal here—the only goal—is to stop health-care socialism. Period. Giving the pro-life Democrats a reason to vote for it—passage of the Stupak amendment—seems to me to be madness. And suppose that it passes and the Senate passes its own version of health care “reform,” after which Waxman and Pelosi ...
The AMA and AARP Don’t Speak for Doctors and Seniors
Hopefully the Congressional Budget Office will quit misleading people by saying that the House and Senate bills would each siphon hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare and spend it elsewhere. And hopefully the CBO will quit saying that if the bills don’t do this, they will add hundreds ...
The AMA Is More a Monopoly in Crisis Than a Professional Association
As for the AMA, even the Wall Street Journal labels the AMA the “doctors lobby” (sic), while noting that 20 other physicians’ organizations are highly critical of the proposed legislation. Actually, state, county, and specialized medical societies are the real voices of the profession. The AMA is a business that ...
Health Reform Would Bury Small Business
Investor’s Business Daily, November 6, 2009 President Obama recently delivered a special address aimed at quelling small-business owners’ concerns about Democratic plans for health care reform. The legislation, he assured, would “benefit millions of small businesses” and was “being written with the interests of Americans like you and your employees ...
Government interference in health care not needed
While the U.S. health care system needs reform, it can be done without government involvement, a 5th district U.S. Congressional candidate and doctor told an audience Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Dr. Johnny Roy, chief of urology at the Edmond Medical Center, spoke during a public health care forum ...
SPN 2009 Conference: Final Day
Publius Forum, November 4, 2009 The Wednesday session began with a breakfast address by James K. Glassman the former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State during the George W. Bush administration. He spoke on Internet freedom (as opposed to net neutrality) and expressed his ...
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
Last month, Christina Romer, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, made a presentation at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In response to a question about whether a so-called “public option” for health insurance would increase competition and reduce costs, ...
How best to lower health care costs?
San Diego Union-Tribune, November 4, 2009 In a recent column, David Broder proclaimed that “no one should be denied coverage options by virtue of where they live.” “Health care and states’ rights,” (Oct. 30). That’s exactly why Congress should allow consumers to purchase health insurance across state lines. Insurance regulations ...
